In desperate need of some decongestant, I made a trip to town this morning, and this was the sight that greeted me:
The sun on the snow was so bright that my head throbbed all the way there and back, but it was worth it to get it on film (so to speak). What a beautiful day!
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Hard to believe this little tractor-lovin’ dude is so grown up.
Also? I can’t believe this picture is ten years old.
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There was another absolutely gorgeous sunset last night, and I was lucky enough to get a few pictures of it:
Almost made getting stuck in the driveway worth it. (Okay, not really, but I’m trying to find a bright side to getting stuck in a barely-drifted driveway.)
Happy Friday, everybody! 🙂
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Last night we had our first major snow storm in a while.
We were supposed to get five to nine inches, but from the looks of things, we got less than half that. Still, the wind has been wicked. I hate to think what the drifts are like out there.
But it’s okay – this has been the perfect weekend for snuggling up under a blanket with a good book and a cup of tea. 🙂
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It’s been a day full of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The marathon has been lovely, but it’s also left me a bit inspiration-less when it comes to my blog.
With that in mind, I hope you enjoy this pretty, pretty sunset. It was lingering in my archives, just begging to be shared.
Hope you’re having a great weekend!
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Today’s throwback post is interesting in its age. See, I took these pictures last night – they’re my birthday gifts. But they both hail from the ’90s (literally, in the case of the one), so I feel justified in calling them throwbacks:
I LOVED *NSYNC when I was younger. Oh, who am I kidding? I still love them. When it came time to pick between Team *NSYNC and Team BSB, I was the one in the middle clutching my posters of JC and Nick and pleading for both of them. Even today, I still can’t decide which group I like better. So when my sister gave me this poster-cube-thingy, I couldn’t help laughing and then grinning like an idiot all the way home.
Buffy was – apparently – the continuation of a trend. We watched the 1992 movie on Monday night, followed by The Lost Boys on Tuesday night. The whole vampire thing started me thinking about Angel, the box set of which lives in the bottom of one of our DVD cabinets, and I decided I’d rather like to watch it. Except that I didn’t watch Buffy when it originally aired (I didn’t get the channel *sigh*), and I wondered how much backstory I’d be missing if I watched Angel without having seen Buffy.
Seymour to the rescue! We watched the first two episodes of Buffy last night and have a marathon planned for the weekend. Good times, great oldies. 🙂
I think I’ve written about how we celebrate birthdays in my family before – what do you do?
Don’t forget to stop by Charnele’s blog and check out her fabulous throwback post!
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Miss Tadpole and Bubbles had a 4-H meeting this afternoon and it was their turn to give the presentations. Naturally, they left them till the last minute, because who needs to prepare?
Since our ISP switch, though, we only have internet access on one computer – Seymour’s. It’s an inconvenience for sure, and when Miss Tadpole wanted to use the internet to look up information about the history of cats, we told her to look at the encyclopedia.
Her response?
“That doesn’t have history in it.”
*facepalm*
So I gave her a whirlwind introduction to the encyclopedia. Again. (Sadly, this is not the first time this conversation has happened in my house.) I showed her the index, explaining that it was “like Google, before Google was a thing.” Then I demonstrated how to use it to check out different keywords in her search (she wanted information on cats in ancient Egypt). Unfortunately, our encyclopedia was a bit lacking when it came to ancient Egyptian cats, but hopefully she learned that she doesn’t have to rely on the internet for everything.
And no, I’m not holding my breath that that particular lesson actually soaked in.
Still, it was a lot of fun looking through that old encyclopedia. Some of my most treasured memories involve summer afternoons at the library reading The World Book Encyclopedia.
Do you have any fun memories involving reference books of yore? Share ’em below – let’s reminisce! 🙂
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Today’s throwback picture goes back to Christmas 2007. It was the first Christmas after my divorce, and Bubbles’ grandparents had invited us to help them pick out their Christmas tree:
This picture singlehandedly destroyed my camera, the first digital one I’d ever owned. Not thirty seconds after I snapped this picture, I managed to drop the poor camera lens-first on the ice.
*sigh*
Curse you, butterfingers!
I took my Christmas bonus that year and bought another camera, which I subsequently bequeathed to Bubbles a couple of years ago. He’s used it all of twice, if I’m not mistaken. 🙂
Hope you all have a great weekend, and don’t forget to check out Charnele’s blog – she’s got a great post up today. Happy Friday! 🙂
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Last night while I was cooking supper, I shot one of the pictures for yesterday’s post. Bubbles asked why I was taking a picture of toothpaste, so I told him about my photo-a-day-for-a-year project.
“Can you take my picture?” he asked.
I feel like I’ve covered this ground with him here already (Oh, that’s right – I have!), but oh well.
So I told him to do something, and I’d take his picture. He decided he wanted to scale the kitchen doorway. As that’s always entertaining, I told him I was waiting.
His first attempt (and mine) was a total failure. The next one was slightly better, but nearly ended with a smooshed Cricket. His third attempt went better (and Cricket – and Thumper, who refuses to be left out of the fun – got a lecture about not running under Bubbles when he was trying to climb the woodwork), but still sent him sliding back down to the floor. And since all those pictures turned out blurry (either in whole or in part), I’m declining to share, even though Bubbles and I got a pretty good laugh out of them.
At long last, though, he managed to climb to the top of the doorway. I got my picture, he got down, no one got hurt. Yay!
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My brain seems to be out of the office today, so my throwback post isn’t going back all that far:
Here’s Bubbles fighting with some landscape edging last spring. He and Seymour were prettying up the front yard at our old house, and he had a little bit of trouble.
Don’t forget to stop by Charnele’s blog and see what she’s been up to lately. Hope your Friday’s a happy one, and have a great weekend!
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 